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10 Cash - Tangguo Tongbao, Seal script
| Issuer | Southern Tang Kingdom |
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| Year | 959-961 |
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| Currency | Cash (937-976) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, seal script) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Southern Tang issued the Tangguo Tongbao in the final years of the kingdom's existence, a period of acute fiscal pressure as Li Yu — the last ruler, better remembered as a poet than a statesman — paid increasingly ruinous tribute to the Song to forestall invasion. The ten-cash denomination represented an attempt to extract greater seigniorage from bronze coinage at a moment when the treasury could not sustain conventional minting ratios.
The seal script variety, catalogued separately from its regular-script counterpart, is the scarcer of the two. The Southern Tang fell to Song forces in 975, cutting the issue window to roughly two years at most.